Sakya Pandita
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Tibetan script :
ས་ སྐྱ་ པཎྜི་ ཏ་ ཀུན་ དགའ་ རྒྱལ་ མཚན་ །
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Wylie transliteration : sa skya paṇḍita kun dga 'rgyal mtshan
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Pronunciation in IPA : [
saca pantita kỹka cɛntsʰɛ̃ ]
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Official transcription of the PRCh : Sa'gya Pandita Günga Gyaincain
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THDL transcription : Sakya Pandita Künga Gyeltsen
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Other spellings: Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen
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Traditional :
薩斯迦 • 班 彌 怛 • 功 嘉 監 藏 、
袞 噶 堅贊 、 普 喜 幢 、 慶 喜 幢 |
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Simplified :
萨斯迦 • 班 弥 怛 • 功 嘉 监 藏 、
衮 噶 坚赞 、 普 喜 幢 、 庆 喜 幢 |
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Pinyin : Sàsījiā Bānmídá Gōngjiā Jiāncáng,
Gǔngá Jiānzàn, Pǔxǐzhuàng, Qìngxǐzhuàng |
Sakya Pandita Künga Gyeltshen (* 1182 in Sakya Dzong ; † 1251 in Liangzhou ) often just called "Sakya Pandita", belongs to the "Five Venerable Masters" who are considered to be the actual founders of the Sakya tradition of Tibetan Buddhism . In addition to Sakya Pandita, these five masters include Künga Nyingpo , Sönam Tsemo , Dragpa Gyeltshen and Chögyel Phagpa .
Sakya Pandita was a student of many teachers, including the fifth Sakya Thridzin (throne holder of the Sakya) Dragpa Gyeltshen and the scholar Shakya Shri Bhadra (1127-1225) from Kashmir . He became known as one of the greatest scholars of his time and is considered one of the greatest scholars of Tibetan Buddhism at all.
Together with the Indian scholar Shakya Shri Bhadra, he translated important texts on logic that became a standard work on this subject in the “new schools of Buddhism in Tibet” ( Sarma ). His statements on the “highest view” within the framework of the Sakya teachings are also of great importance.
In 1247 Sakya Pandita, who had meanwhile become the sixth Sakya Thridzin, traveled to Lanzhou accompanied by his nephew Chögyel Phagpa at the invitation of the Mongol prince Godan Khan . There he designed a grammar for the Mongolian language and began to spread Buddhism in the country. His connection with the Mongols was of great importance for the political situation in Tibet. Shortly before his death, he appointed his nephew Chögyel Phagpa as his successor as the Upper Lama of Tibet; he was later appointed viceroy over Tibet by the Mongols. Sakya Pandita died in Liangzhou (now Wuwei in Gansu ) in 1251 .
See also
literature
- Michael Hahn (transl. And ed.): From the right life: Buddhist teachings from India and Tibet. Frankfurt a. M.: Verlag der Weltreligionen, 2007, ISBN 9783458700036
Web links
- Literature by and about Sakya Pandita in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sakyatrizin.org via Sakya Pandita (English)
- Questions of Nyimo Gomchen by Sakya Pandita
- kun dga 'rgyal mtshan
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kelsanggyal: Religions in Tibet . Beijing, China Intercontinental Press, ISBN 7-5085-0437-2 , p. 112.
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| SURNAME | Sakya Pandita |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sakya Pandita Künga Gyeltshen; Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | sixth Sakya Thridzin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1182 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sakya Dzong |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1251 |